Lake of Sorrows by Erin Hart5/28/2023 ![]() The many readers who grew attached to Nora and her on-again, off-again amour and sometime investigative partner, archeologist Cormac Maguire, in Haunted Ground Yet it's an emotionally and intellectually gorgeous descent. The downside of Hart's talent is that there are so many beautifully realized lives in this novel-police detectives, archeologists, beekeepers, scholars, farmers, mothers-that readers will sink into the book as if it were the Loughnabrone ("Lake of Sorrows") Bog itself. Gavin, to the coldly erotic and bullying archeologist Ursula Downes, whose murder Nora helps solve nearly at the cost of her own life. Every character is fascinating, from the depressed yet fearless and tenderly passionate Dr. ![]() ![]() Can there be too much of a good thing? Hart's second literary thriller starring pathologist Nora Gavin, set in the misty midlands and myth-laden peat bogs of County Offaly, is an Irish breakfast of a book: a kidney here, a sausage there, undeniably rich and delicious but likely to provoke indigestion unless consumed slowly. ![]()
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